Music and Me

I grew up in a household surrounded by music. My father played guitar and sang — still does — and he had the most amazing collection of cassette tapes. Literally thousands of them, lining a whole wall. The only recording of me as a child is one on a scratchy old cassette, and it’s me [...]

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Memorials

I’ve been thinking a lot about what to say about the memorial service I attended yesterday morning. Memorials take different forms in different cultures, and in Second Life, this is also true. Yesterday, Grunt Greenwood’s memorial was a full military sendoff. Taps, 21 gun salute, a flag-draped casket. I am not from a military family, [...]

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Not-so-Spring Inventory Cleaning

I decided to do a little inventory cleaning. I’m far from done, but I did this:
Look for clothes from stores I like. Search for the landmarks for those stores and delete all but one.
Go through notecards. If I don’t need them at hand, box them up and store the storage prims inside the master storage [...]

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Good Music Makes Everything Better

After a less-than-stellar day, nothing makes me feel better than some good music.
Tonight, Cylindrian sang one particularly great song abandoning all actual lyrics and instead riffing about what she would like to do with Takamura Keiko’s ice cream. A much-needed laugh. I love how talented musicians do that, keeping their music in the moment, making [...]

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Getting the House in Order

I’m not a big believer in omens. But reminders… yeah, I get it.
First, there was Armi’s post Monday about making arrangements for your SL affairs in case something happens to you.
Then last night, as I was about to log off for the night, I got an IM asking if I had a cellphone number for [...]

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Daybreak

A new day begins… a new blog stirs to life. Why on earth do we need yet another blog about what goes on in virtual worlds? Don’t we get enough of that?
Umm… maybe.
But I’ve been thinking about it a while, wanting to have somewhere to pull together my observations as I travel the grid. And [...]

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